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New Books List for January 2005

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LH 7AN94 R3233 v.29 . . . . ANNUAL REVIEW OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES. Volume 29. Edited by Pamela A. Matson, Ashok Gadgil, and Daniel M. Kammen. Palo Alto: Annual Reviews, 2004. (Available on the Internet at http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/loi/energy)

QC782 S38 2004 . . . . ATOMIC NUCLEUS AS A RELATIVISTIC SYSTEM. By L. N. Savushkin and H. Toki. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2004. [Texts and Monographs in Physics]

QC793.2 S35 2004 . . . . DEEP DOWN THINGS: THE BREATHTAKING BEAUTY OF PARTICLE PHYSICS. By Bruce A. Schumm. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.

R895 A2 M42 2004 . . . . EIGHTH MEXICAN SYMPOSIUM ON MEDICAL PHYSICS. (Proceedings) Edited by Miguel Vargas-Luna, Gerardo Gutiérrez-Juárez, Raquel Heurta-Franco, and Sergio Márquez-Gamiño. Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2004. [AIP Conference Proceedings, no. 724] (Available on the Internet at http://proceedings.aip.org/proceedings/confproceed/724.jsp)

QB466 E65 E68 2004 . . . . EQUATION-OF-STATE AND PHASE-TRANSITION ISSUES IN MODELS OF ORDINARY ASTROPHYSICAL MATTER. (Proceedings) Edited by Vladan Celebonovic, Werner Däppen, and Douglas Gough. Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2004. [AIP Conference Proceedings, no. 731] (Available on the Internet at http://proceedings.aip.org/proceedings/confproceed/731.jsp)

QC311.5 L398 2004 . . . . EQUILIBRIUM AND NON-EQUILIBRIUM STATISTICAL THERMODYNAMICS. By Michel Le Bellac, Fabrice Mortessagne, and G. George Batrouni. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

QC20.7 G55 I5945 2004 . . . . GLOBAL ANALYSIS AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS: INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON GLOBAL ANALYSIS. (Proceedings) Edited by Kenan Tas, Demeter Krupka, Olga Krupková, and Dumitru Baleanu. Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2004. [AIP Conference Proceedings, no. 729] (Available on the Internet at http://proceedings.aip.org/proceedings/confproceed/729.jsp)

QC174.12 G75 2005 c.2 . . . . INTRODUCTION TO QUANTUM MECHANICS. 2nd Edition. By David J. Griffiths. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 2005.

QC793.5 P42 P3813 2004 . . . . INTRODUCTION TO QUANTUM OPTICS: FROM LIGHT QUANTA TO QUANTUM TELEPORTATION. By Harry Paul. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

QC166 C444 2005 . . . . MODERN VACUUM PHYSICS. By Austin Chambers. Boca Raton: Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2005. [Masters Series in Physics and Astronomy]

QC759.6 R33 2005 . . . . MULTIPOLE THEORY IN ELECTROMAGNETISM: CLASSICAL, QUANTUM, AND SYMMETRY ASPECTS, WITH APPLICATIONS. By R. E. Raab and O. L. deLange. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005. [International Series of Monographs on Physics, v. 128]

QC770 I498 2004 . . . . NUCLEAR PHYSICS, LARGE AND SMALL: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MICROSCOPIC STUDIES OF COLLECTIVE PHENOMENA. (Proceedings) Edited by Roelof Bijker, Richard F. Casten, and Alejandro Frank. Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2004. [AIP Conference Proceedings, no. 726] (Available on the Internet at http://proceedings.aip.org/proceedings/confproceed/726.jsp)

QB981 T96 2004 . . . . ORIGINS: FOURTEEN BILLION YEARS OF COSMIC EVOLUTION. By Neil Degrasse Tyson and Donald Goldsmith. New York: W.W. Norton, 2004.

QC793.2 S42 2005 . . . . PARTICLE PHYSICS: A COMPREHENSIVE INTRODUCTION. By A. Seiden. San Francisco: Addison-Wesley, 2005.

QB980 P52 2004 . . . . PHI IN THE SKY: THE QUEST FOR COSMOLOGICAL SCALAR FIELDS. (Proceedings) Edited by C.J.A.P. Martins, et al. Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2004. [AIP Conference Proceedings, no. 736] (Available on the Internet at http://proceedings.aip.org/proceedings/confproceed/736.jsp)

QC30 P53 2003 . . . . 2003 PHYSICS EDUCATION RESEARCH CONFERENCE. (Proceedings) Edited by Jeffery Marx, Scott Franklin, and Karen Cummings. Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2004. [AIP Conference Proceedings, no. 720] (Available on the Internet at http://proceedings.aip.org/proceedings/confproceed/720.jsp)

QC175.16 P5 F85 2005 . . . . PHYSICS OF STRUCTURAL PHASE TRANSITIONS. 2nd Edition. By Minoru Fujimoto. New York: Springer-Verlag, 2005.

QC793.5 E622 I58 2004 . . . . PORTABLE SYNCHROTRON LIGHT SOURCES AND ADVANCED APPLICATIONS. (Proceedings) Edited by Hironari Yamada, Noriko Mochizuki-Oda, and Makoto Sasaki. Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2004. [AIP Conference Proceedings, no. 716] (Available on the Internet at http://proceedings.aip.org/proceedings/confproceed/716.jsp)

QC174.17 C45 N36 2004 . . . . QUANTUM CHAOS AND QUANTUM DOTS. By Katsuhiro Nakamura and Takahisa Harayama. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. [Mesoscopic Physics and Nanotechnology, v. 3]

QC174.13 D734 2004 . . . . QUANTUM-CLASSICAL ANALOGIES. By Daniela Dragoman and Mircea Dragoman. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2004. [Frontiers Collection]

TK5103.59 I575 2004 . . . . QUANTUM COMMUNICATION, MEASUREMENT AND COMPUTING. (Proceedings) Edited by Stephen M. Barnett, et al. Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2004. [AIP Conference Proceedings, no. 734] (Available on the Internet at http://proceedings.aip.org/proceedings/confproceed/734.jsp)

QC174.45 A6 W46 2004 . . . . QUANTUM FIELD THEORY OF MANY-BODY SYSTEMS: FROM THE ORIGIN OF SOUND TO AN ORIGIN OF LIGHT AND ELECTRONS. By Xiao-Gang Wen. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

QC174.12 B78 2004 . . . . SCHRÖDINGER'S RABBITS: THE MANY WORLDS OF QUANTUM. By Bruce Colin. Washington: National Academy Press, 2004. (Available on the Internet at http://www.nap.edu/books/0309090512/html/)

QC21.2 O45 2004 . . . . SHAGGY STEED OF PHYSICS: MATHEMATICAL BEAUTY IN THE PHYSICAL WORLD. 2nd Edition. By David Oliver. New York: Springer-Verlag, 2004.

QC176 S515 2004 . . . . SOLID STATE PHYSICS OF FINITE SYSTEMS: METAL CLUSTERS, FULLERENES, ATOMIC WIRES. By R.A. Broglia, G. Colò, G. Onida and H.E. Roman. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2004. [Advanced Texts in Physics]